Julius Zimpel

Illustration by Julius Zimpel to ETA Hoffmann, Das Majorat

Julius Zimpel (born August 30, 1896 in Vienna ; † August 11, 1925 there ) was an Austrian painter , graphic artist , book artist and craftsman .

Zimpel was the son of Gustav Klimt's youngest sister Johanna (1873–1950) and her husband Julius Zimpel sen. He received the first artistic suggestions from his uncle Gustav Klimt. In 1911/14 he attended the general department of the School of Applied Arts under Rudolf Cižek, Anton von Kenner , Adolf Böhm, Alfred Roller , Oskar Strnad and Rudolf von Larisch , and from 1914-16 the specialist class for painting with Kolo Moser . In October 1916 he was appointed teacher at the professional training school for bookbinders, in 1917 he was appointed teacher for technical drawing and modeling at the advanced training school for jewelers. In the post-war years, Zimpel also supplied designs for the Wiener Werkstätte : book covers, fabrics, glass decorations, ceramics, metal objects, ivory, toys. Shortly before his death, he was entrusted with the artistic direction of the “Wiener Werkstätte” as the successor to Dagobert Peche .

Zimpel began in 1911 with the production of the handwritten, with painted or drawn illustrations provided "personal books", to which in 1920/22 he published the "Verlag Neuer Graphik" (later in the "Rikola-Verlag"), written by hand and decorated with lithographs Books ”. To these approximately 100 "original graphic" books are lined up 25 printed books, to which Zimpel contributed the book decorations or only the cover drawing. He illustrated a. a. romantic fairy tales, "The victory of nature over enthusiasm or the adventures of Don Sylvio von Rosalva" by Christoph Martin Wieland and by ETA Hoffmann "Das Majorat". Zimpel handled pen and stone drawings as well as woodcuts and etchings .

Zimpel exhibited in 1919 in the "House of Young Artists" and in 1925 in the International Decorative Arts Exhibition in Paris. A memorial exhibition was organized by the Neue Galerie in Vienna in November 1925.

literature

Thieme-Becker
Murray G. Hall: Austrian Publishing History 1918-1938 . Vol. II. Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Vienna 1985. The Rikola Group p. 310 ff., Verlag Neuer Graphik p. 328–31. ISBN 3-205-07258-8
Adolf Sennewald: German book illustrators in the first third of the 20th century. Materials for bibliophiles . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999. ISBN 3-447-04228-1

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SURNAME	Zimpel, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter, graphic artist and artisan
DATE OF BIRTH	August 30, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	August 11, 1925
Place of death	Vienna